Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 233

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

GAY COALITION OF DENVER


Small archive from the coalition's early years.
21 items in one folder, many of them period photocopies; minor wear. Denver, CO, 1968-1978 and 2002.

Includes a 1973 circular letter protesting discriminatory enforcement of "lewd acts" laws, with the coalition's related 11-page civil suit against the city of Denver; a Xeroxed 1973 grant proposal to launch the Gay Community Services Center; 5 of the coalition's monthly newsletters from 1973 and 1974; the March 1974 issue of the Denver magazine "The New Way"; an advertisement for the 2382nd anniversary party of the fictional Benevolent Order of Persecuted Sodomites; a 1978 flyer protesting several local murders titled "The Killing Must Stop! . . . Self Defense is Our Right!"; photocopies of financial notes going back to 1968; and one post-1970s item, a program for a Pride Week event at the Community Center in 2002.